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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1
They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him Michael Chertoff. Ain't you blokes got no learning? Wilbur Hubbard |
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"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 > > They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him > Michael Chertoff. > > Ain't you blokes got no learning? > > Wilbur Hubbard > When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is Chertoff. Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I care? |
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"Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... > > "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message > news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >> >> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call >> him Michael Chertoff. >> >> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >> >> Wilbur Hubbard >> > When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is > Chertoff. This is what the caption under the photo of Bush says: "George Bush's homeland security chief Michael Chertoff , warned the next September 11-style attack could be launched by British Muslims" Sounds like they think it's Chertoff to me. > Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I > care? You should care because there are now over 2 million Muslims living in your country and around 5% of these are plotting terrorist attacks against your country as I write this. Some, according to the article, are using your country as a base to plot terrorist attacks against the United States of America. In other words, your liberalism and stick your head up your arse philosophy is a direct threat to MY country. Isn't it about time you blokes got your act together over there and started taking the Muslim terrorist seriously? As long as your sloth only results in death and destruction in your own country, you have every right to ignore it. But, when innaction commences to be a threat to other countries then you have a responsibility to put a stop to it. Wilbur Hubbard |
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"Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... > > "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message > news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >> >> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him >> Michael Chertoff. >> >> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >> >> Wilbur Hubbard >> > When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is > Chertoff. > Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I care? It says America doesn't have a problem with home grown terrorists. Who flew the Sept. 11th planes then? Weren't they American trained home grown pilots? TonyB > |
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"TonyB" <hatt.j.bennett@tesco.net> wrote in message news:_fudnf5aIs8N_UnbnZ2dnUVZ8sGvnZ2d@bt.com... > > "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... >> >> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >> news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>> >>> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call >>> him Michael Chertoff. >>> >>> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>> >>> Wilbur Hubbard >>> >> When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is >> Chertoff. >> Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I >> care? > > It says America doesn't have a problem with home grown terrorists. > Who flew the Sept. 11th planes then? Weren't they American trained > home grown pilots? I think you will find, provided you check into it, that all but two of the 9-11 terrorists were Saudis. Wilbur Hubbard |
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On 28 Aug, 18:48, "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubb...@thefarm.invallid>
wrote: > You should care because there are now over 2 million Muslims living in > your country and around 5% of these are plotting terrorist attacks > against your country as I write this. Some, according to the article, > are using your country as a base to plot terrorist attacks against the > United States of America. Now do you see why we got so cross when so many of your fellow countrymen supported and armed IRA terrorists over the years? Ian |
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Were they the same pilots that recently bombed the british squaddies in
Afganistan? Oh sorry that was our American allies, AGAIN! "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d4650a$0$79242$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > > "TonyB" <hatt.j.bennett@tesco.net> wrote in message > news:_fudnf5aIs8N_UnbnZ2dnUVZ8sGvnZ2d@bt.com... >> >> "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... >>> >>> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >>> news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>>> >>>> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him >>>> Michael Chertoff. >>>> >>>> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>>> >>>> Wilbur Hubbard >>>> >>> When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is >>> Chertoff. >>> Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I >>> care? >> >> It says America doesn't have a problem with home grown terrorists. >> Who flew the Sept. 11th planes then? Weren't they American trained home >> grown pilots? > > > I think you will find, provided you check into it, that all but two of the > 9-11 terrorists were Saudis. > > Wilbur Hubbard |
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"deepblue" <garyedge@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:WuqdnZh8g4y_AEnbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net... > Were they the same pilots that recently bombed the british squaddies > in Afganistan? > Oh sorry that was our American allies, AGAIN! The fact is when the USA is the only country actively standing up to the terrorists it stands to reason some mistakes will be made. While we regret any coalition casualties we understand that they cannot be completely avoided. And, when those who get bombed by mistake were in part at fault for not disclosing their location, avoiding such things is even more difficult. At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to be kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers and then have to watch them on the telly whining and sniveling like a bunch of little girls. Quite frankly, that was a pathetic display even for girl scouts, let alone trained professional military blokes. Wilbur Hubbard |
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"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d45f9c$0$79255$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > > "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... >> >> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >> news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>> >>> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him >>> Michael Chertoff. >>> >>> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>> >>> Wilbur Hubbard >>> >> When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is >> Chertoff. > > This is what the caption under the photo of Bush says: "George Bush's > homeland security chief Michael Chertoff , warned the next September > 11-style attack could be launched by British Muslims" > > Sounds like they think it's Chertoff to me. > >> Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I care? > > You should care because there are now over 2 million Muslims living in > your country and around 5% of these are plotting terrorist attacks against > your country as I write this. Some, according to the article, are using > your country as a base to plot terrorist attacks against the United States > of America. In other words, your liberalism and stick your head up your > arse philosophy is a direct threat to MY country. Isn't it about time you > blokes got your act together over there and started taking the Muslim > terrorist seriously? As long as your sloth only results in death and > destruction in your own country, you have every right to ignore it. But, > when innaction commences to be a threat to other countries then you have a > responsibility to put a stop to it. > > Wilbur Hubbard There is no 'caption' on the photo. You refer to text within the article. |
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> At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to be
> kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers and then have to watch > them on the telly whining and sniveling like a bunch of little girls. > Quite frankly, that was a pathetic display even for girl scouts, let alone > trained professional military blokes. Yes, you are quite right about that. It was shameful, and as an ex Royal Navy man I was disgusted. -- Yrs Quilly |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:55 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
<wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 > >They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him >Michael Chertoff. > >Ain't you blokes got no learning? > >Wilbur Hubbard > Strange that you seem to constantly poke at us brits ? I mean , If the "land of the free " is so much better ,why read british newspapers ? Whats up doc, don't you trust your own? This particular poke is sadly a reflection on your mongrel nation's predeliction for shooting anything that moves ,from the hip and without consideration for the consequences but that may be the difference between "learning" and "Education" . Having read afew of your posts I think you secretly , deep down , wish you were british. Gaz |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:33:20 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
<wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: .. > >At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to >be kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers and then have to >watch them on the telly whining and sniveling like a bunch of little >girls. Quite frankly, that was a pathetic display even for girl scouts, >let alone trained professional military blokes. > >Wilbur Hubbard While I accept that this was not very dignified, there was, I believe, no ransom paid. On the other hand words such as Iran Contra 1979 hostages crisis Oliver North come to mind. David |
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:08:08 +0100, Adagio <anold.man@nowhere.com>
wrote: >On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:33:20 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" ><wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: >. >> >>At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to >>be kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers and then have to >>watch them on the telly whining and sniveling like a bunch of little >>girls. Quite frankly, that was a pathetic display even for girl scouts, >>let alone trained professional military blokes. >> >>Wilbur Hubbard > >While I accept that this was not very dignified, there was, I believe, >no ransom paid. > >On the other hand words such as Iran Contra 1979 hostages crisis >Oliver North come to mind. > >David How about.... JFK Martin Luther King Genocide of Native americans Klu Klux Klan Vietnam Cambodia CIA Drug deals Bay of Pigs Hiroshima Timothy McVeigh Terry Nichols Pete Langan and the Aryan Republican Army Waco Ruby Ridge The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation Ditching the Geneva Convention in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison ( Google this one you will be disgusted) |
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On 28 Aug, 23:33, "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubb...@thefarm.invallid>
wrote: > At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to > be kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers... No ... you send them in by helicopter, and crash while doing so. Aw, isn't he cute. Can we keep him? Ian |
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"Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:46d504ec$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... > > "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message > news:46d45f9c$0$79255$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >> >> "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... >>> >>> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >>> news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>>> >>>> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call >>>> him Michael Chertoff. >>>> >>>> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>>> >>>> Wilbur Hubbard >>>> >>> When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture >>> is Chertoff. >> >> This is what the caption under the photo of Bush says: "George Bush's >> homeland security chief Michael Chertoff , warned the next September >> 11-style attack could be launched by British Muslims" >> >> Sounds like they think it's Chertoff to me. >> >>> Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I >>> care? >> >> You should care because there are now over 2 million Muslims living >> in your country and around 5% of these are plotting terrorist attacks >> against your country as I write this. Some, according to the article, >> are using your country as a base to plot terrorist attacks against >> the United States of America. In other words, your liberalism and >> stick your head up your arse philosophy is a direct threat to MY >> country. Isn't it about time you blokes got your act together over >> there and started taking the Muslim terrorist seriously? As long as >> your sloth only results in death and destruction in your own country, >> you have every right to ignore it. But, when innaction commences to >> be a threat to other countries then you have a responsibility to put >> a stop to it. >> >> Wilbur Hubbard > > There is no 'caption' on the photo. You refer to text within the > article. > You'd better get your eyeglass prescription checked or your browser adjusted. Under the photo there is clearly a caption. It is NOT text from the article. Wilbur Hubbard |
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"Garry" <kestrelteck@btconnect.com> wrote in message news:gffad31ebrsrdl9fvk6rs9r1pl0npdha1s@4ax.com... > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:55 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" > <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: > >>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >> >>They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call >>him >>Michael Chertoff. >> >>Ain't you blokes got no learning? >> >>Wilbur Hubbard >> > Strange that you seem to constantly poke at us brits ? I mean , If the > "land of the free " is so much better ,why read british newspapers ? > Whats up doc, don't you trust your own? > > This particular poke is sadly a reflection on your mongrel nation's > predeliction for shooting anything that moves ,from the hip and > without consideration for the consequences but that may be the > difference between "learning" and "Education" . > > Having read afew of your posts I think you secretly , deep down , > wish you were british. > > > Gaz Some of you Brits are pretty cool. Your sense of humor is well-developed and you have managed to do something we can't seem to accomplish here in the United States. That is, your Negro minority actually seems educated and able to speak the King's English with the typical British accent while our Negro minority are mostly high school drop-outs and seem to speak some kind of thick-tongued dialect that's barely English at all. An American can listen to a U.S. radio talk show or a telephone conversation and quickly conclude if one of the speakers is a Negro by the uneducated, broken English dialect they all seem to use - doesn't matter if they are from California or New York or Florida or Minnesota they all sound the same. Our Negro prize fighters like Mike Tyson talk like brutes for the most part but your Trevor Berbick, when he talks, if you only heard him and did not see him, you'd not even know he was a Negro. He sounds just like any other Brit. I think that's cool. Wilbur Hubbard |
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I beg to differ, I do not know of any American black or white, who can speak
the Queen's English.( we haven't had a king for some time now!) -- Yrs Quilly http://quilljar.users.btopenworld.com/gall.html "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d5a4ae$0$79271$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > > "Garry" <kestrelteck@btconnect.com> wrote in message > news:gffad31ebrsrdl9fvk6rs9r1pl0npdha1s@4ax.com... >> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:55 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" >> <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: >> >>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>> >>>They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him >>>Michael Chertoff. >>> >>>Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>> >>>Wilbur Hubbard >>> >> Strange that you seem to constantly poke at us brits ? I mean , If the >> "land of the free " is so much better ,why read british newspapers ? >> Whats up doc, don't you trust your own? >> >> This particular poke is sadly a reflection on your mongrel nation's >> predeliction for shooting anything that moves ,from the hip and >> without consideration for the consequences but that may be the >> difference between "learning" and "Education" . >> >> Having read afew of your posts I think you secretly , deep down , >> wish you were british. >> >> >> Gaz > > Some of you Brits are pretty cool. Your sense of humor is well-developed > and you have managed to do something we can't seem to accomplish here in > the United States. That is, your Negro minority actually seems educated > and able to speak the King's English with the typical British accent while > our Negro minority are mostly high school drop-outs and seem to speak some > kind of thick-tongued dialect that's barely English at all. > > An American can listen to a U.S. radio talk show or a telephone > conversation and quickly conclude if one of the speakers is a Negro by the > uneducated, broken English dialect they all seem to use - doesn't matter > if they are from California or New York or Florida or Minnesota they all > sound the same. Our Negro prize fighters like Mike Tyson talk like brutes > for the most part but your Trevor Berbick, when he talks, if you only > heard him and did not see him, you'd not even know he was a Negro. He > sounds just like any other Brit. I think that's cool. > > Wilbur Hubbard |
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"Quilljar" <Not@home.today> wrote in message news:OMWdnfJg4bKIO0jbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com... >I beg to differ, I do not know of any American black or white, who can >speak the Queen's English.( we haven't had a king for some time now!) > > -- > Yrs Quilly The Queen's English? I wonder from whom she learned it? Perhaps from the King? Pray tell? No King? Then did Prince Phillip just sort of arrive out of thin air Wilbur Hubbard > > http://quilljar.users.btopenworld.com/gall.html > > "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message > news:46d5a4ae$0$79271$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >> >> "Garry" <kestrelteck@btconnect.com> wrote in message >> news:gffad31ebrsrdl9fvk6rs9r1pl0npdha1s@4ax.com... >>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:55 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" >>> <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: >>> >>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>>> >>>>They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call >>>>him >>>>Michael Chertoff. >>>> >>>>Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>>> >>>>Wilbur Hubbard >>>> >>> Strange that you seem to constantly poke at us brits ? I mean , If >>> the >>> "land of the free " is so much better ,why read british newspapers ? >>> Whats up doc, don't you trust your own? >>> >>> This particular poke is sadly a reflection on your mongrel nation's >>> predeliction for shooting anything that moves ,from the hip and >>> without consideration for the consequences but that may be the >>> difference between "learning" and "Education" . >>> >>> Having read afew of your posts I think you secretly , deep down , >>> wish you were british. >>> >>> >>> Gaz >> >> Some of you Brits are pretty cool. Your sense of humor is >> well-developed and you have managed to do something we can't seem to >> accomplish here in the United States. That is, your Negro minority >> actually seems educated and able to speak the King's English with the >> typical British accent while our Negro minority are mostly high >> school drop-outs and seem to speak some kind of thick-tongued dialect >> that's barely English at all. >> >> An American can listen to a U.S. radio talk show or a telephone >> conversation and quickly conclude if one of the speakers is a Negro >> by the uneducated, broken English dialect they all seem to use - >> doesn't matter if they are from California or New York or Florida or >> Minnesota they all sound the same. Our Negro prize fighters like >> Mike Tyson talk like brutes for the most part but your Trevor >> Berbick, when he talks, if you only heard him and did not see him, >> you'd not even know he was a Negro. He sounds just like any other >> Brit. I think that's cool. >> >> Wilbur Hubbard > |
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Your ignorance is astounding!
Prince Phillip was a member of the Greek royal family and absolutely nothing to do with the last King of England. He was the Duke of Edinburgh until Queen Elizabeth made him a prince. Mind you, all this is of very little interest to most Brits! -- Yrs Quilly http://quilljar.users.btopenworld.com/gall.html "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d5a737$0$79275$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > > "Quilljar" <Not@home.today> wrote in message > news:OMWdnfJg4bKIO0jbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com... >>I beg to differ, I do not know of any American black or white, who can >>speak the Queen's English.( we haven't had a king for some time now!) >> >> -- >> Yrs Quilly > > The Queen's English? I wonder from whom she learned it? Perhaps from the > King? > > Pray tell? No King? Then did Prince Phillip just sort of arrive out of > thin air > > Wilbur Hubbard > >> >> http://quilljar.users.btopenworld.com/gall.html >> >> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >> news:46d5a4ae$0$79271$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>> >>> "Garry" <kestrelteck@btconnect.com> wrote in message >>> news:gffad31ebrsrdl9fvk6rs9r1pl0npdha1s@4ax.com... >>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:55 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" >>>> <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote: >>>> >>>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>>>> >>>>>They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him >>>>>Michael Chertoff. >>>>> >>>>>Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>>>> >>>>>Wilbur Hubbard >>>>> >>>> Strange that you seem to constantly poke at us brits ? I mean , If the >>>> "land of the free " is so much better ,why read british newspapers ? >>>> Whats up doc, don't you trust your own? >>>> >>>> This particular poke is sadly a reflection on your mongrel nation's >>>> predeliction for shooting anything that moves ,from the hip and >>>> without consideration for the consequences but that may be the >>>> difference between "learning" and "Education" . >>>> >>>> Having read afew of your posts I think you secretly , deep down , >>>> wish you were british. >>>> >>>> >>>> Gaz >>> >>> Some of you Brits are pretty cool. Your sense of humor is well-developed >>> and you have managed to do something we can't seem to accomplish here in >>> the United States. That is, your Negro minority actually seems educated >>> and able to speak the King's English with the typical British accent >>> while our Negro minority are mostly high school drop-outs and seem to >>> speak some kind of thick-tongued dialect that's barely English at all. >>> >>> An American can listen to a U.S. radio talk show or a telephone >>> conversation and quickly conclude if one of the speakers is a Negro by >>> the uneducated, broken English dialect they all seem to use - doesn't >>> matter if they are from California or New York or Florida or Minnesota >>> they all sound the same. Our Negro prize fighters like Mike Tyson talk >>> like brutes for the most part but your Trevor Berbick, when he talks, if >>> you only heard him and did not see him, you'd not even know he was a >>> Negro. He sounds just like any other Brit. I think that's cool. >>> >>> Wilbur Hubbard >> > |
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Re: OT - You Brits are not too bright
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:47:16 +0100, "Quilljar" <Not@home.today> wrote:
>Your ignorance is astounding! >Prince Phillip was a member of the Greek royal family and absolutely nothing >to do with the last King of England. He was the Duke of Edinburgh until >Queen Elizabeth made him a prince. >Mind you, all this is of very little interest to most Brits! Wilbur and Philip are like peas in a pod. Controversial remarks Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghThe Duke is well-known in Britain for cracking jokes during public visits that can come across as blunt, insensitive, and racist.[10] His comments are often taken with a pinch of salt in the UK and as characteristic of his sense of humour.[citation needed] Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"[11] When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".[11] After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?"[11] "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986)[11] In 1966 he remarked that "British women can't cook."[11] To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"[11] Angering local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, the Prince said to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."[12] On a visit to the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."[13][11] In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, "Do you still throw spears at each other?"[14][11] Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." (1993)[11] Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an Indian".[15] During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Beijing as "ghastly".[16] "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)[11] At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."[11] Upon presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a student, when informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans; upon being informed he was not, it was claimed the 85-year-old duke added: "Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages."[17] At the University of Salford, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: "You could do with losing a bit of weight."[18] In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Amritsar Massacre) Monument, provoked outrage in India and in the UK with an offhand comment. Having observed a plaque claiming 2,000 casualties, Prince Philip observed, "That's not right. The number is less." [19] The Duke of Edinburgh may have been correct as several sources suggest considerably fewer than the 2000 casualties claimed.[20][21] During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London , he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist Tamil Tigers.[11] He once attributed a badly finished carpentry job to one having been done by an Indian.[22] In 1996, he drew sharp criticism when he said "a gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman". The comment came in the wake of the massacre of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.[23][11] In 1987, he wrote in his book If I Were an Animal that "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."[24] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_...e_of_Edinburgh |
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>> It says America doesn't have a problem with home grown terrorists. >> Who flew the Sept. 11th planes then? Weren't they American trained >> home grown pilots? > > > I think you will find, provided you check into it, that all but two of > the 9-11 terrorists were Saudis. And how many were USA trained pilots? TonyB |
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> Controversial remarks
> Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: > Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghThe Duke is well-known in Britain for > cracking jokes during public visits that can come across as blunt, > insensitive, and racist.[10] His comments are often taken with a pinch > of salt in the UK and as characteristic of his sense of > humour.[citation needed] Snip.... He's got a wry sense of humour for an old boy hasn't he? TonyB |
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In article <46d4a26d$0$79269$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanew s.com>, Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
> > "deepblue" <garyedge@bigfoot.com> wrote in message > news:WuqdnZh8g4y_AEnbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net... >> Were they the same pilots that recently bombed the british squaddies >> in Afganistan? >> Oh sorry that was our American allies, AGAIN! > > > The fact is when the USA is the only country actively standing up to the > terrorists Of course you are, the rest of us are just taking a vacation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
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"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d5a1de$0$79276$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > > "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:46d504ec$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... >> >> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >> news:46d45f9c$0$79255$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>> >>> "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:46d455dc$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... >>>> >>>> "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message >>>> news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >>>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 >>>>> >>>>> They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call >>>>> him Michael Chertoff. >>>>> >>>>> Ain't you blokes got no learning? >>>>> >>>>> Wilbur Hubbard >>>>> >>>> When will you learn to read Wilma? Nowhere does it say the picture is >>>> Chertoff. >>> >>> This is what the caption under the photo of Bush says: "George Bush's >>> homeland security chief Michael Chertoff , warned the next September >>> 11-style attack could be launched by British Muslims" >>> >>> Sounds like they think it's Chertoff to me. >>> >>>> Anyway, who is Bush, and where is he President of, and why should I >>>> care? >>> >>> You should care because there are now over 2 million Muslims living in >>> your country and around 5% of these are plotting terrorist attacks >>> against your country as I write this. Some, according to the article, >>> are using your country as a base to plot terrorist attacks against the >>> United States of America. In other words, your liberalism and stick your >>> head up your arse philosophy is a direct threat to MY country. Isn't it >>> about time you blokes got your act together over there and started >>> taking the Muslim terrorist seriously? As long as your sloth only >>> results in death and destruction in your own country, you have every >>> right to ignore it. But, when innaction commences to be a threat to >>> other countries then you have a responsibility to put a stop to it. >>> >>> Wilbur Hubbard >> >> There is no 'caption' on the photo. You refer to text within the article. >> > > You'd better get your eyeglass prescription checked or your browser > adjusted. Under the photo there is clearly a caption. It is NOT text from > the article. > > Wilbur Hubbard We must be looking at different web pages, because the one you pointed at clearly has no caption. |
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"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d4a26d$0$79269$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > > "deepblue" <garyedge@bigfoot.com> wrote in message > news:WuqdnZh8g4y_AEnbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net... >> Were they the same pilots that recently bombed the british squaddies in >> Afganistan? >> Oh sorry that was our American allies, AGAIN! > > > The fact is when the USA is the only country actively standing up to the > terrorists it stands to reason some mistakes will be made. The fact is that the USA is the biggest and best armed terrorist nation on earth. Which is why smaller terrorist groups are doing what they are doing. Terrorism will never stop until the USA stops provoking it. |
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"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d5a4ae$0$79271$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... >snip < Some of you Brits are pretty cool. And the many Brits killed by US 'friendly fire' are not just cool, they're stone cold. Piss off Wilma, and tell it to the Marines - or even better, join the (US) Marines, I believe they're developing a shortage, and with your brain pre-removed you'd be an obvious candidate. |
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"Quilljar" <Not@home.today> wrote in message news  Y6dnTUJKui-okjbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com...>> At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to >> be kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers and then have to >> watch them on the telly whining and sniveling like a bunch of little >> girls. Quite frankly, that was a pathetic display even for girl scouts, >> let alone trained professional military blokes. > > Yes, you are quite right about that. It was shameful, and as an ex Royal > Navy man I was disgusted. > > > > -- > Yrs Quilly Would you have preferred a shooting incident, loss of life and the possible start of a war to the enrichment of a few matelots and matelotesses? |
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"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message news:46d44b9c$0$62317$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.oct anews.com... > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id=181 1 > > They have a picture of President Bush in this article and they call him > Michael Chertoff. > > Ain't you blokes got no learning? > > Wilbur Hubbard > > Hey Wilma, check out a broad cross section of your own people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE Frightningly funny...unlike Wilma Trollard |
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No, but I would have expected our blokes to have behaved with more dignity.
Fancy complaining that they took his ipod away? If he had been in my crew he would not have had any such thing on duty. -- Yrs Quilly http://quilljar.users.btopenworld.com/gall.html "Duncan Heenan" <duncanheenan@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:46d686bf_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com... > > "Quilljar" <Not@home.today> wrote in message > news Y6dnTUJKui-okjbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com...>>> At least we don't allow rubber boats full of our sailors and marines to >>> be kidnapped right under the guns of our destroyers and then have to >>> watch them on the telly whining and sniveling like a bunch of little >>> girls. Quite frankly, that was a pathetic display even for girl scouts, >>> let alone trained professional military blokes. >> >> Yes, you are quite right about that. It was shameful, and as an ex Royal >> Navy man I was disgusted. >> >> >> >> -- >> Yrs Quilly > > Would you have preferred a shooting incident, loss of life and the > possible start of a war to the enrichment of a few matelots and > matelotesses? |
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